(May 6, 2016 at 8:53 pm)Mermaid Wrote:(May 6, 2016 at 8:46 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: The Clinton hate is a result of 18 months of run up for an election because of the money involved in politics.
An election cycle in which the goal is to make sure supporters of one candidate loathe the other one. It's certainly not about where she stands on the issues. It's her personal characteristics.
I am left to wonder if it has anything to do with her being female.
Honestly, in a subtle manner, her gender does seem play a factor in general. A lot of male politicians are just as dishonest as she is, and they never get that much hate from people.
But the other problem is that she is also currently pitted against someone rather rare for a politician to be (integrity, honesty, consistency), namely Bernie Sanders. And this comparison hurts her badly because it shows people that even politicians can be even more decent than what they are used to, but Hillary (like most other politicians) could never measure up to that newfound expectation so she not only remains inferior to Bernie in favorability, but goes down because of the newly-emerging disillusionment, even if people do regardless tend to see her as a "better" politician.
